Winny's Blog

Caught myself browsing my offline Wikipedia today.

Got heat exhaustion / heat stroke a few times in 2025.

This is an Emacs carnival post for 2026.

ChatGPT is full of shit and that’s okay.

I am curious how LLM/AI has affected my cognition and behaviors.

There was a significant mixup in communicating the boundaries for OCC 2026.

I cloned my Debian 13 libvirt template VM and named the clone “occ”.

The Old Computer Challenge started last Sunday.

By a guest automaton.

GitLab emailed me about a failed Let’s Encrypt renewal.

As a studious GNU Units user, I have a small body of notes documenting various ways to perform calculations with unit conversions.

Python 3.14 was released today and I caught myself reading the Python 3.14 release notes so figured I’d type up what changes caught my eye.

I am curious regarding how many packages existed on my system.

There’s this cool blog-o-sphere Emacs party going on, with September’s theme of everything about obscure packages.

Figure 1: Blasting off from planet Racket to other planets.

The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel. — Opening paragraph from William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

Figure 1: sudo plus emacs Emacs offers TRAMP as a way to edit files over ssh or as a different user.

Figure 1: Biked & camped 100 miles (160 km) from Milwaukee to Manitowoc in 36 hours It’s been a tumultuous year.

All the browser userscripts that I’ve been using were scattered across a multitude of pastebin links and git repositories.

Every December since 2015, Advent of Code publishes a Christmas Advent calendar loaded to the brim with challenging programming quibbles and trials.

Previously I introduced the reader to ShellCheck.

In this post I hope to convince the reader on the merits of ShellCheck.

Turns out my NAS is vulnerable to the SSH vulnerability which allows anyone to log into your host with enough time, guaranteed.

Here’s a few notes on CPUID and /proc/cpuinfo.

What’s worse than a fire on a boat?

Figure 1: John from USA - CC-BY-2.0 Watch out, things break, stuff catches fire.

Figure 1: The laptop that was having a bad day with NixOS 23.11 More upgrade gotchas.

Figure 1: Jamian · CC BY 3.0 Deed (link) A frequent quip of the unix-beard is shebangs cannot contain multiple command-line arguments.

Figure 1: Official image for 23.11 Upgrading my workstation to 23.11 wasn’t as simple as I was hoping.

Figure 1: Dietmar Rabich CC BY-SA 4.0 (link) Things that I achieved this year.

Hello, my name is Winny and welcome to my honest review of Sway, a i3wm compatible Wayland compositor.

I’ve been using Nix for a year now.

2024-07-06 I’ve archived this post Looking for the post Racket frustrates me?

Source lives here.

I’ve been operating Sillypaste (source code) - a simple Django pastebin created for dogfooding.

Figure 1: Pre-commit running within GitLab CI I’ve been using pre-commit as my tool to set up hooks to run when I commit to Git.

Figure 1: your computer on low memory TL;DR: yes.

Here’s a small outline of how I validate used computers as “usable” and “in working condition”.

I had a need to host image galleries online.

For the Lang Party Summer 2022, I wrote a BASIC interpreter.

Recently I have begun migrating my workstation and laptop from Gentoo to NixOS.

Digital Ocean’s App Platform works fairly well with Racket.

Awhile back I found a stack of audio CDs I wished to digitize.

GitLab has recently locked down the accessibility to free CI/CD minutes.

Figure 1: Behold!

The goal of this post is to demonstrate the usefulness of IPMI even in hobbyist or personal use.

A fantastic “feature” of Linux, BSD, and even Windows 10 is you don’t really need to reinstall to migrate an installation to a new computer.

Note: this is my OWN opinion and not representative of any community entity.

It’s refresh time!

Gather.town is a very cool virtual conference platform.